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The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
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Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#42I'm really curious why they released to stable with so many basic features missing. For example, your bookmarks won't sync between devices (although that was recently re-enabled in the preview channels). It sounds like they're not pushing out automatic updates right now anyway, so I'm not sure what this announcement amounts to. Why not wait until the 20H1 Windows 10 feature update (which sounds like the update that w…
I use Edge (Canary) as my primary browser and appreciate how minimalist it is.
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#43Linked at https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy : "We will honor your choices about browsing data and collect only what is needed to make your experiences better."
Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.
Curious, why would targeted ads make the user experience worse? (putting privacy aside)
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#44The logo seems confusingly similar to Firefox's.
Definitely more similar to the explorer 'e', but I do see the resemblance to IceWeasel.
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#45For some reason it had decided that I am Italian. Took me a while to decipher and bring it back to English
It gave me the page in english, but the license agreement in Russian.
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#46Previous Edge was significantly more power efficient than Chrome - did they tell anything about how much battery does this new version use?
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.
Curious, why would targeted ads make the user experience worse? (putting privacy aside)
Why would getting shot make your life worse? (putting the pain and the bleeding aside)
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#48If you use the PDF or e-book functionality in Edge, you may want to hold off on upgrading. The PDF scrolling is not as smooth as on the older version.
Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable. Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PDF reader (sumatraPDF), but if I was using edge for heavy PDFs I would be rather disappointed Seems fine for PDFs that are a bit less extreme, but nowhere near as smooth as old edge.
That's a problem the Firefox PDF viewer frequently suffers from as well. Give it a big complex PDF and it can choke very hard on stuff that Acrobat reader or xpdf open in under a second.
Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#49Re: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.
Curious, why would targeted ads make the user experience worse? (putting privacy aside)
Advertising is a distraction and an attempt at psychological manipulation. That is obviously a worse experience, unless you're actually into being distracted/manipulated. The weasel words "targeted ads are better" imply comparison to untargeted ads and is a disingenuous statement.